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Flow, The Optimal Experience (2022)

Francesco Siri
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In this research I would like to investigate the psychological aspect related to the practice of a musical instrument, going deeper into the experience of the flow state that the musician can live intensely. It is a state of mind of complete absorption in what one is doing. The process started by reading and informing myself as much as possible through books, articles, and personal experience. Based on these I created a strategy of work and exercises that would help me to be more focused and inside the music both in my studies and especially in my performances. I prepared two questionnaires to be filled in after the performances: 1) Personal Questionnaire 2) Group of critical friends To check whether the strategy I had been using over the last few months was helping me to achieve my goal or not. From the results of the two questionnaires until now, I can deduce the most effective and useful aspects of the strategy I implemented. It is also interesting to see how the suggestions of critical friends are similar to the "criticism" I made myself in the personal questionnaire. Over the last few weeks while analysing my latest performances and the results of the questionnaires, I have realised an increase in pleasure in playing and concentration on the task to do, which was not always present before I started this work. I am quite convinced that whatever strategy you want to use, you need patience to see over time if it really works.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsFlow, optimal experience, positive psychology, Musical Training Performance & Cognition
date22/11/2021
published11/07/2022
last modified11/07/2022
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightFrancesco Siri
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1433187/1433188
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/koncon.1433187
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue1. Master Research Projects


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